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simonwtoday at 3:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've been in these situations before. If there's a known bug in an internal tool that would take the development team a day to investigate and fix - aka $10,000s - it's often smarter to send around an email saying "don't click the Froople button more than once, and if you do tell Benjamin and he'll fix it in the database for you".

Of course LLMs change that equation now because the fix might take a few minutes instead.


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zahlmantoday at 7:20 PM

> If there's a known bug in an internal tool that would take the development team a day to investigate and fix - aka $10,000s - it's often smarter to send around an email saying "don't click the Froople button more than once, and if you do tell Benjamin and he'll fix it in the database for you".

How much will Benjamin's time responding to those calls cost in the long run?

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dns_snektoday at 5:15 PM

> development team a day to investigate and fix - aka $10,000s

What about the non-fictional 99.999999999% of the world that doesn't make $1000/hour?

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